Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

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Saudi Arabia opposes .gay internet domain name

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

14 August 2012 Last updated at 17:44 Campaigners say the .gay domain would help offer support to the homosexual and bisexual community Opposition to the creation of the internet address ending .gay has been voiced by Saudi Arabia. Its Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) said the action would be “offensive” to some societies and [...]

ICANN Reveals the Applications for the New gTLD’s: It’s Time for Brand Owners …

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

You may recall that earlier this year the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) began a historic expansion of the internet domain name system by accepting applications for new generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”) (i.e. the string of letters to the right of the dot in a domain name). (See Changes in [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy DNS Made Easy is the standard of IP Anycast DNS services… Reston, VA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System Monitoring platform. The statistics [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy’s Failover Service proves to be a key asset for organizations in preventing downtime with their hosting. Calculated savings from lost revenue by using DNS Made Easy’s Failover Service exceeded $230 Million alone. Reston, VA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced [...]

EuroDNS promotion offers .SG domain names at €24.99

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

With a population of over five million and described by the World Bank as, “the easiest place to do business”; EuroDNS would like to introduce its customers to Singapore, the Lion City. The EuroDNS promotion on .SG domain names allows customers to register new or transfer existing domain names at a promotional rate. Valid until [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012 Reston, VA, Jul 31, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012 Reston, VA, Jul 31, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System [...]

ICANN Wants YOU…for gTLD Batching

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

In an announcement published over the weekend, ICANN issued a request for community input on “requirements for an evaluation and delegation process” for new gTLDs. Essentially, questions raised during the Public Meeting in Prague about the order in which new gTLD applications would be handled – whether at the evaluation, release, or delegation phases – [...]

ICANN Reveals Evaluation Timing for New gTLDs

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Having consigned to oblivion the unpopular “digital archery” method of determining who goes first in the new gTLD round, ICANN today announced that it was going to evaluate all new gTLD applications concurrently (the “single batch”), and release all results simultaneously. The decision is a victory for clarity and a very good result for new [...]

Three Steps to Prepare Your Company’s Brand for the New gTLD Expansion

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Brand managers: You’ve been hearing about the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration expansion for a while now. What are top-level domains, and what do they have to do with your brand’s existing digital presence and strategy? A top-level domain (TLD) is the portion of a website address that is to the right of the dot, [...]

Ubuntu Turns Websites Into WebApps

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Canonical has developed a feature for Ubuntu Linux allowing it to run web pages as though they were desktop applications, something the company calls Ubuntu WebApps. The feature, announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon this week, is a further step towards integrating web services into the desktop, something companies such [...]

Melbourne IT Urges Brands to Swiftly Evaluate New Internet Domain Application …

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With fewer than four weeks of ICANN’s official public-comment period for the 1,930 new Top Level Domain applications remaining, online brand specialist Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services (DBS) today urged brands to prioritize the assessment of potential risks and promptly respond before the comment window closes on August 12th. “It is not [...]

ICANN’s New gTLDs Program: Disputes, Comments and Objections

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

What if someone applied for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) that is confusingly similar to the gTLD applied for by your company?  Who has standing to file an objection or to submit a public comment in response to an applied-for gTLD?  These are the questions that many participants and observers of the Internet Corporation [...]

Internet’s New Wild West: gTLDs

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Possible generic top level domain names (gTLDs), many of which were applied for recently. (Graphic by Elizabeth Wiley/Flip the Media) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a little known entity that controls the naming system on the Internet, just got $347 million richer this year. And it appears to be only the beginning. [...]

‘Doomsday Virus’ Fizzles Out

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

The Internet “doomsday virus” that people were warned about over the weekend didn’t quite materialize Monday — but that doesn’t mean the threat isn’t real. Several large American Internet service providers, among them ATT, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, picked up where the FBI left off early Monday morning. The ISPs were redirecting Web traffic [...]

Andrew Donaldson ill-informed about Ubuntu

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Let’s Talk about Ubuntu and Live it – a response to Andrew Donaldson Why do so many journalists decry Ubuntu? And what stops the promise of Ubuntu from flying high and rooting itself deeply? The recent article written by Andrew Donaldson requires a rapid response.   To his credit, Donaldson’s article sheds light on the [...]

ISPs downplay DNSChanger impact as substitute servers go dark

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Computerworld – Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled, but several major U.S. Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP addresses with infected machines had fallen since mid-June by 34% in the U.S., according to July 4 data from a [...]

Deadline expires for ‘Doomsday’ virus: What you need to know

Monday, July 9th, 2012

(AP/File) Thousands of computer users may be without Internet access Monday after a deadline expired for a temporary fix to a malicious software scam shut down by the FBI last year. What is it? Millions of computers were infected with the so-called “Internet Doomsday” virus used in the hacking scam, which redirected Internet searches through [...]

DNSChanger Deadline; Google Promotes Marriage Equality; Facebook Kills Face.com

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Didn’t have time to check out the tech headlines over the weekend? Here’s what you missed. Thousands of users whose compouters were infected with DNSChanger malware likely lost their Internet connections early this morning. The FBI pulled the plug on a network of rogue DNS servers previously used by cybercriminals to redirect users’ browsing sessions. [...]

SEOPressor To Release V5 Of SEO Plugin for WordPress

Monday, July 9th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 09, 2012 – Australia, June 25, 2012 – SEOPresser is a top of the line SEO Plugin for WordPress and is getting ready to release V5. It has been places on SitePoint’s top 10 list of Premium Plugins. Many individuals who use this plugin end up returning back to it. [...]

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